Nexus Point

Dace only wants the freedom to fly her merchant ship where the trade takes her. But fate has other plans. Her crew betrays her and destroys her ship, stranding her on Dadilan. The natives of the planet think she's a demon dropped from the sky in a ball of fire. The smugglers think she's the competition. The Patrol are convinced she's a pirate or worse. Her only hope of rescue is to convince the Patrol agent currently hunting her that she's innocent. But on Dadilan no one is innocent.

Nexus Point, the beginning of the Fall of the Altairan Empire.Book 1 in the series by Jaleta Clegg. Check out the Fall of the Altairan Empire.